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| Abbreviation | UNIFEM |
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| Merged into | UN Women |
Parent organization | United Nations |
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, French: Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme,[1] Spanish: Fondo de Desarrollo de las Naciones Unidas para la Mujer[2]) was established in December 1976 originally as the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women in the International Women's Year. Its first director was Margaret C. Snyder. UNIFEM provided financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that promoted women's human rights, political participation and economic security. Since 1976 it supported women's empowerment and gender equality through its programme offices and links with women's organizations in the major regions of the world. Its work on gender responsive budgets began in 1996 in Southern Africa and expanded to include East Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central America and the Andean region. It worked to increase awareness throughout the UN system of gender-responsive budgets as a tool to strengthen economic governance in all countries. In 2011, UNIFEM merged with some other smaller entities to become UN Women.
- ^ "Nicole Kidman, Ambassadrice de Bonne Volonté Pour l'Unifem, Devant Le Congrès Américain". Le Monde. 23 October 2009. Retrieved 27 June 2020 – via EBSCOhost.
- ^ Alberdi 2019, p. 12.